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Cool Rocks

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edit1: Some more photos of this selfsame rock through a micro scope (somewhere between 10x and 45x, didn't write it down)

and another feature I discovered: the rock has a slickenside which i can't really show on a photo. basically one of the sides is beat up into sand and polished. the whole rock unit was pretty beat up, so i'm not super suprised but it's cool

edit2: ok i tried to capture the slickenside

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[–] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

i posted a few microscope pictures up top. what i neglected to mention is that the stretched crystals recrystalize, so single crystals won't lock stretched under the microscope. but you can (maybe) see the white crystals, which is quartz, then some brownish stuff, which is either impure quartz or mica crystals, and some black platey stuff, which may be biotite mica

but please: see disclaimer in above post. i could be talking out of my ass

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Damn, you brought your A game to this rock community. Those pics are fantastic.

[–] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

what can i say? i do like rocks. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯